Google TPU v9 Triggerfish With MediaTek Tipped: HBM4E Memory, 3x SRAM Capacity, Production From Late 2027
The American tech giant, Google, has been actively working on its Tensor Processing Unit or TPU chips for powering its AI infrastructure, and now a new update shared by the well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed a few details regarding the company’s upcoming upgraded TPU v9 chip.
Read more about it below.
Google TPU v9 Triggerfish: Production and Specs Tipped
Based on what has been revealed in his X/Twitter post, Ming-Chi Kuo states that the upcoming Triggerfish chip will be a Humufish-based follow-on program, positioned as a TPU v9 variant with stronger inference capabilities. The project also further confirms MediaTek as Google’s preferred development partner for the TPU v9 generation.
About the key differences when compared to Humufish, Ming-Chi Kuo points out that the SRAM capacity has been significantly increased to 2 to 3 times that of Humufish. Along with this, a new simulation die has also been added, while the memory has been upgraded to HBM4E instead of the HBM4 memory used on Humufish. With these upgraded specs, this new variant is expected to help mitigate both the CPU wall and the memory wall, which are two of the key limitations faced in advanced AI workloads.
Notably, the Humufish lifetime shipments are still estimated to be around 4 to 5 million units. Google is now adding an incremental Triggerfish order of around 1 to 2 million units, with production expected to begin in late 2027 and its volume ramp likely to take place in 2028.
But this upgrade isn’t going to come cheap, according to Kuo, the upgraded Triggerfish codenamed TPU V9 is going to cost 30% higher than Humufish. The analyst also points out that this could become an incremental driver of MediaTek’s 2028 business momentum. With AI agents and reinforcement learning expected to become more important in the coming years, Google’s upgraded TPU v9 Triggerfish chip could play a key role in improving the brand’s future AI infrastructure.
Stay tuned for more updates.
